Sites like Uni Lad only act to support our everyday rape culture

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. They are part of a growing culture in which the sexual targeting of female students as “prey” is actively encouraged, even when it verges on rape and sexual assault. That seems to be fairly good odds.” On the new, supposedly ‘cleaned up’ site, a current article describes how to “get the girl away from her protective friends…and into your bed”, reminding readers: “She's hammered. Emma Carragher, Chair of the Cardiff University Women’s Association, agrees: “This slut-shaming has very real impacts – firstly, it encourages sexual assault – it becomes ‘banter’ – and secondly, it stops women from reporting it. One told The Everyday Sexism Project about a male peer who “outright told me I was having sex with him that night… he was calling me a slag, a slut, a whore, for refusing to sleep with him and wanting to keep my virginity.” She continued: “a few days later in a club…he just appeared straddled himself across my legs and started pinning me against the seat forcing kisses on me, and putting his hand down my underwear…and said "Now I've got you"…my friends came over when they saw and he quickly fled.“ Meanwhile the normalisation of rape culture is extremely distressing for students who may have already suffered some form of sexual assault.